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Ready For Take Off: Stop Spinning Your Wheels

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single_rocket_graph_takeoff_400_clr_14298I want you to get yourself going – in some direction! Although this could be considered to be about stopping procrastination, that’s not my intent today.

I know that I often will spin my wheels and not be procrastinating. In fact, I’m working very hard when I’m spinning my wheels. But the problem is that I’m trying this and trying that and can’t seem to make up my mind which direction I want to follow. Can’t figure out which is the “right” direction. So, I end up spending a lot of time and energy not really accomplishing anything and then even more time and energy worrying about spinning my wheels and not knowing what to do…..Catch 22 for sure.

The most recent example I can think of was when I was trying to figure out what book to start with.  I had two ideas and I would go back and forth between each of them. I’d try to figure out the pro’s and con’s of each and whether this would “sell” or be “useful” or would the other be more so. You can probably imagine the paralysis I was inflicting on myself. Like a backyard swing – back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And I didn’t get anywhere at all. It was frustrating as well as non-productive.

So one day after doing EFT and some meditation to quiet my mind, I decided to just write and not worry about what book it would go in. That let everything loose and I accomplished so much just by listening to my inner being. I still have another decision to make once I’ve gotten to a stopping place but those decisions can wait.

I have a few favorite sayings and one of them is that “Everything is always working out for me!” I even have that on a timer on my phone.  At certain times during the day, the phone beeps and the saying pops up. What a great reminder for me that as long as I follow my gut, my inner source, everything WILL work out for me. What I had been trying to do was “control” the situation. I was focusing on BOTH what I wanted and what I didn’t want. I wanted the book to be successful. Of course, that’s kind of hard to achieve if you haven’t written it yet – duh. But, at the same time I was also focusing on what I didn’t want. How? By trying to do a pro AND con list. Every time I thought about a con, I was actually concentrating on the things I didn’t want. You can never get to the solution while you’re in the “problem” mode. The vibrations and feelings you have when you think about problems are totally different than when thinking about solutions and they do NOT mix. I was focusing on the problem and not allowing the solution to come to me until I quieted my mind. That enabled my mind to open up so the solution could come in.

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Keep On Going!

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Determination-gives-you I guess you could say that the title of today’s post is a variation of “Never give up” but I look at it (and experienced it) a bit differently. To me “Never Give Up” has to do with long term goals and processes. My simple statement of “Keep on going” is meant to be a short term mantra or way of living. In ultrarunning we call it “Relentless Forward Motion” – for me that simply meant one foot in front of the other.

Yesterday’s run made me come up with this “keep on going” philosophy again (I’m sure we have all heard this many times in our lives). I went out for an early morning run before work. My shins were not feeling great so I was discouraged again (they get better with AIRROSTI and then I abuse them again and they hurt). But I was out there early and decided just to go a “bit further”. First I told myself I would go about a mile and a half. But by the time I got there I was feeling better so I said “ok, we’ll go to 2 miles”. Then it was 2.5 miles and finally I said “you have just enough time to make it to 3 miles before you have to turn around to make it home to get ready for work. So I persisted. And you know what? It was the very best run I’ve had in months – I felt free and happy and unencumbered. In fact, I have been enjoying running just for running’s sake lately that I am reconsidering going to New York in November. We’ll see.

But I digress. What’s important is that if I had aborted that run yesterday a.m. I would NOT have been able to experience the euphoria I felt. Maybe that’s the “runner’s high” that I never really experience. Maybe it was just the feeling of freedom and the night. All I know is that I learned simply to “keep on going” and see what happens.

Try it – when things don’t seem great, just keep going and see what happens. You may be pleasantly surprised like I was.

This is short today because, you guessed it – I’m out the door on another run!

Terrie

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World AIDS Day

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 Today is World AIDS Day but with everything else that goes on in the world now and in people’s lives, we forget it. That is really a shame because AIDS is still such a big problem and especially for the younger generation who no longer have much awareness of the problem it creates and how it affects and shortens their lives.

We have come a long way in medicine so that AIDS is not that “almost immediate” death sentence it used to be BUT there is still no real cure. Medicine has improved quality and length of life but also comes with a high price tag – not just in currency but in side effects etc.

I bet you have someone in your life (friend, family, colleague) that has been affected in some way by AIDS. But it’s not a “badge of honor” as so many conditions have become. In fact, it bothers me that we have “months” for this and “months” for that but we have one DAY for AIDS awareness (although there is an AIDS awareness “week” now).

What does AIDS mean to you? What does the mention of HIV mean to you and what does it do to your “gut” when you hear it? Do you talk about it with your kids? Do you talk about it with other folks? Do you raise money for the treatment and cure of it? Do you even know how many billions of people (including millions of children) are affected by and dying of AIDS? It is not just a disease that “bad” people get. You must remember that AIDS does not care what your sexual orientation is. It’s a deadly virus and we all have to be aware of it and its devastating effects on the World – both on the population and on the economy.

Take a few moments at least today to think about people with debilitating (either mentally or physically) conditions. Try to get outside yourself and in your thoughts at least send them powerful healing energy and love even if you don’t know them. Use the word AIDS to do just that – provide AID to someone either in person or from afar.

Instead of just thinking outside the box (I really don’t like that phrase) BE outside the box and act outside of yourself. Do something nice for someone today – AID them.

Terrie

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Where Have I Been?

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As you can tell I’ve pretty much been silent and posting only the affirmation of the week.

I decided to explain why I’ve been ‘away’ from the blog even though it might turn people away.

I am discouraged posting on this blog and have felt that my efforts should be focused in other areas of my life. Why have I been discouraged? Two reasons really:

  1. Because NO ONE comments or lets us know that they even read our posts. It’s sort of like writing letters to people repeatedly and never getting a response. That gets very discouraging and suddenly you say “why bother? People aren’t reading what I write so why should I continue?”
  2. Secondly is because this is a business and people don’t seem to want to spend any money on what we have to offer (which is quite alot). We have tons of products that would help people and they are all very reasonably priced, if not under priced. Yet, people just want “free” information. That is discouraging to a business owner. It seems the more we give, the less they are interested in buying information to improve their lives.

Education is not free and should not be free. How much of the free classes do you actually put into effect in your life? But if you pay for something, its value increases and you’re much more likely to use it and apply it. I did not go to college or medical school for free and I spent over 15 years paying back the loans I had to get to go to school. Would I have changed that in any way, shape, or form? Heck no! Do you want a doctor to treat you who got all his information from the Internet – wikipedia and google? I sure don’t. This is one problem with people who try to treat themselves. But that’s another story.

Anyway, I feel that our primary product – “The Art of Making Things Happen” is a premier product and will enable anyone to achieve whatever they want in life. The people who have made it a part of their digital library have had nothing but great things to say about it. Check it out.

Terrie

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Surrender

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Surrender doesn’t mean to give up your free will.As sons and daughters of God we are heirs to the kingdom. All that God has is ours by right of inheritance. In the realm of God we simply listen to our hunches. When we have a hunch that leads to a de-sire (of the Father) it is a gift telling us there is more good for us to bring into our lives. We then can choose to accept the gift or not. We accept by being specific when we make affirmations. God never forces us to do anything. If the word “surrender” still bothers you, don’t use it. My affirmation is this. “I choose to receive all the good that is on its way to me now.” I never say “I surrender” to anything that is not defined by good.

We were trained through our childhood religions that surrender means to take whatever we get and do whatever we are told. That is not the way the universe works. When we say be specific, it also means be specific that you only ask for things that lead to your greater health, wealth, happiness and joyful expression.

Anne